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The great county history of Surrey was begun by the clergyman Owen Manning (1721–1801) and completed after his death by the lawyer William Bray (1736–1832). It was published in three volumes between 1804 and 1814. Its parish-by-parish accounts of manors, churches, monuments, charities and landowners remain the starting point for Surrey’s history.
The parishes around Wandsworth Common are all in volume III (1814), in the Hundred of Brixton. Each chapter has been transcribed in full from Philip Boys’s own copy, keeping the original spelling. The original page numbers are marked, so that any passage can be found again in the printed volume. See also Manning and Bray in Our Historians.
— Battersea (vol. III, pp. 328–341)
— Wandsworth (vol. III, pp. 342–358)
— Clapham (vol. III, pp. 359–372)
— Tooting (vol. III, pp. 373–380)
— Wimbledon (vol. III, pp. 266–284)
Transcribed by Philip Boys, with Claude, September 2026. Build 3.